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disdainfully

Adverb

Meaning

in a proud and domineering manner

without respect; in a disdainful manner

Source: WordNet

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Examples

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills. Marcus Aurelius

Arizonans should not be judged disdainfully and from a distance by people whose closest contacts with Hispanics are with fine men and women who trim their lawns and put plates in front of them at restaurants, not with illegal immigrants passing through their backyards at 3 A.M. George Will

he treated his staff cavalierly Source: Internet

she spoke of him contemptuously Source: Internet

Dryden in MacFlecknoe disdainfully called the pastime the "torturing of one poor word ten thousand ways". Source: Internet

Marek, pp.166-69 Lucrezia had previously made overtures of friendship to Isabella which the latter had coldly and disdainfully ignored. Source: Internet

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